What are the best books to read before you go to college?

Psychology... try some modernist writers, Henry James - The Turn of the Screw, Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis, you may also like to try Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. All great known works of Literature that also raise questions of various psychological issues. Oh also, try 'The Yellow Wall Paper', 'The Woman in the Attic' and 'Shakespeare's Sister' if you want to take a feminist approach (e.g. exploring the idea of 'hysteria')